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William Shakespeare Quotes
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About William Shakespeare
 Life: 1564 - 1616 Country:  England Profession: Writer; Poet; William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
more... QuotationsTo be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
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~ William Shakespeare
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
~ William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ~ William Shakespeare
Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. ~ William Shakespeare
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. ~ William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence. ~ William Shakespeare - Coriolanus, III, ii
For you and I are past our dancing days. ~ William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, I, v
MACDUFF: What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER: Marry, Sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery sir, it provokes and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. ~ William Shakespeare - Macbeth, II, iii
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ~ William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar, III, ii
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on t'other [the other side]. ~ William Shakespeare - Macbeth, I, viii
I say there is no darkness but ignorance. ~ William Shakespeare
Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,
I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.
~ William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene i, lines 112-113
To be furious
Is to be frightened out of fear.
~ William Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra, Act III, scene xiii, lines 195-196
The nature of bad news infects the teller.
~ William Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene ii, line 96
For they say every why hath a wherefore.
~ William Shakespeare - The Comedy of Errors, Act II, scene ii, line 42
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
~ William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ~ William Shakespeare
The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
~ William Shakespeare
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood. ~ William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ~ William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. ~ William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. ~ William Shakespeare
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. And the best of me is diligence. ~ William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. ~ William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ~ William Shakespeare
Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest. ~ William Shakespeare
There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murther in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell: ~ William Shakespeare
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. ~ William Shakespeare
In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. ~ William Shakespeare
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ~ William Shakespeare
A surfeit of the sweetest things
the deepest loathing to the stomach brings. ~ William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ~ William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! ~ William Shakespeare - King Lear
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven. ~ William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. ~ William Shakespeare - King Richard III
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. ~ William Shakespeare - Macbeth
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby. ~ William Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus
The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope. ~ William Shakespeare
Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow,
A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ William Shakespeare
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. ~ William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand. ~ William Shakespeare
Jesters do oft prove prophets. ~ William Shakespeare - King Lear
'Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god. ~ William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ~ William Shakespeare - Henry VI
Thou art the Mars of malcontents. ~ William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.
Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. ~ William Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more;
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore;
To one thing constant never. ~ William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
I do desire we may be better strangers. ~ William Shakespeare
Blow, blow thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude. ~ William Shakespeare - As You Like It
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails. ~ William Shakespeare - A Winters Tale
And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not. ~ William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. ~ William Shakespeare
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